- “Felony murder: why a teenager who didn’t kill anyone faces 55 years in jail” [Ed Pilkington, Guardian]
- Crime largely missing from urbanist discussion but might actually be more important than streetcars [Urbanophile]
- “So when you read ‘she pioneered the use of John Doe indictments to stop clock on statutes of limitation’, think about your alibi for 1983.” [@ClarkHat on Twitter]
- “Kern County, a jurisdiction with a long unfortunate history of putting the wrong people in prison” [Radley Balko, Glenn Reynolds/USA Today on People v. Efrain Velasco-Palacios]
- What did prisoners do to get locked up? [Robert VerBruggen/Real Clear Policy] Role of sentencing policy in growth of prison population [Dara Lind, Vox]
- In the United Kingdom, claims of mass ritual child abuse are back [Matthew Scott, Barrister Blog; Barbara Hewson, The Justice Gap]
- New York City bus drivers have a point: not every traffic injury implies a legal wrong [Scott Greenfield]
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With regard to the prosecutor who added a confession to the defendant’s statement, is this not a crime under California law? I would think that it would fall under a statute barring falsification of official documents or forgery.
The document was never entered into evidence, and the prosecutor claimed it was a “joke.” One of the frightening things about the story is that the prosecutor involved is now in charge of the D.A run crime lab.
Ref Satanic cults, there has been an outbreak of Mad Brit Disease in the last couple of years. I was shocked at first when Oxford U press,which used to have an excellent reputation,published a book by Ross Cheit embracing kooky day care accusations that had been discredited in America. The mystery explained itself when a truthful scandal about deceased BBC host Jimmy Savile was leveraged into accusations against various political figures in Britain.
(For a solid refutation of the Cheit book, go to ncrj.org and search the site for “Ross Cheit.”)